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    Help: Tangerine iBook freezes on boot-up

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by GuzziMan, Oct 21, 2006.

  1. GuzziMan

    GuzziMan Notebook Enthusiast

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    I wasn't expecting my 300 Mhz tangerine iBook OS 8.6 to last this long, and I'm sad that this may be the end :(

    My iBook OS 8.6 with 160 ram (total!) & a non-working CD drive & battery -freezes after a complete boot-up. The cursor will move for around 5 second once the desktop icon are up and then it just freezes. Then there is nothing I can do to unfreeze except shut it down. Then it goes again on the self-repair boot-up...

    The last thing I did, that most likely caused it, was hook up a broadband ethernet and then swicth-off the virtual memory :eek: ('cause I thought it was a little slow...)

    Anybody knows how I could get it going again without spending any money?... :confused: Any special "F" key tricks?
    I actually still like it, eventhough I've got a newer Duo core :D
     
    GuzziMan, Oct 21, 2006
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    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Try out lowendmac.com. I don't think most of us have a lot of experience with Apple hardware of that era. It is REALLY old.
     
    cashmonee, Oct 22, 2006
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  3. Wooky

    Wooky Notebook Evangelist

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    You are running OS 8.6? I am not familiar with it. But, as you said, if it started happening just after you disabled VM than it might be choking on not enough memory. Is telnet/ssh still running? perhaps just the guy is frozen, you might be able to telnet/ssh into it and reenable the vm. Also, I don't know if this od ibook has target mode; you could try editing wherever that config is stored in OS 8. Or, take out the drive and do it in another computer.
     
    Wooky, Oct 22, 2006
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